The Other Patient: Understanding the Role of Parents in Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy

Clinical work with children and adolescents never involves just one patient and one clinician. Understanding the child’s experience in the context of the family means the clinician must also become deeply familiar with the functioning of the parents, not just from the perspective of the child, but also from the vantage point of the parents. Complex needs and reactions on the part of child patients and their parents push clinicians to be able to pivot smoothly between the multiple priorities that are typical in child and adolescent cases. How do we make these kinds of shifts? How do we manage intense countertransference reactions? How do we help children via helping their parents? And how do we maintain boundaries given these complicated demands?

Event Location

Saturday, Mar 22 - 11:45AM-1:15PM

About the Event.

Clinical work with children and adolescents never involves just one patient and one clinician. Understanding the child’s experience in the context of the family means the clinician must also become deeply familiar with the functioning of the parents, not just from the perspective of the child, but also from the vantage point of the parents. Complex needs and reactions on the part of child patients and their parents push clinicians to be able to pivot smoothly between the multiple priorities that are typical in child and adolescent cases. How do we make these kinds of shifts? How do we manage intense countertransference reactions? How do we help children via helping their parents? And how do we maintain boundaries given these complicated demands?

Learning Objectives.

1. Participants will be able to identify ways in which treatment alliances can be developed with primary caregivers.
2. Participants will be able to identify and examine difficult, progress-impeding countertransferences to primary caregivers.
3. Participants will be able to expand their understandings of primary caregivers in order to see them as secondary patients who need to be engaged with empathy and understanding.

CME/ CE Statement.

ACCME Accreditation Statement
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Psychoanalytic Association of New York. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Disclosure Statement
The APsA CE Committee has reviewed the materials for accredited continuing education and has determined that this activity is not related to the product line of ineligible companies and therefore, the activity meets the exception outlined in Standard 3: ACCME's identification, mitigation and disclosure of relevant financial relationship. This activity does not have any known commercial support.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York (affiliated with NYU Grossman School of Medicine) is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s Board for Psychology as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0112.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York, affiliated with NYU School of Medicine is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0124.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychoanalysts #P0064.

Psychoanalytic Association of New York is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0304.

CME/ CE Credits Available: 1.5

Citations.

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